Community Theatre

From Jakarta to Javeenbah Theatre: Director Dawn China.

British black comedy The Anniversary, opening at Javeenbah Theatre (Qld) on March 22, may mark British ex-pat Dawn China’s directorial debut for the Gold Coast company, but she has an intriguing theatrical background.

Since moving to Australia in 2004, Dawn (pictured left with twin sons Ben and Paul) has embraced her new home at Javeenbah Theatre after a life of travelling the world.

“My husband’s career took us to Indonesia, where I first discovered theatre with the Jakarta Players, a group of expatriate theatre lovers.”

THE BEE IS BACK

In 2009 the Stage Artz Theatre Company produced The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (performed at the Zenith Theatre in Chatswood).  Since then, the Stage Artz Theatre Company has continued to receive requests to bring back the Bee!! so… “due to popular demand”, Stage Artz Theatre Company will present a return season of the Tony Award winning musical comedy at the Glen Street Theatre from March 20, 2013.

New Stage Version Celebrates 200th Anniversary of Pride and Prejudice

Highlands Theatre Group (NSW) celebrates the 200th Anniversary of Jane Austen’s Pride And Prejudice in April with a new stage version of the book by playwright / director Jim Cheesley.

Back in 2011 the local Jane Austen Society approached the Highlands Theatre Group to see if they would be interested in performing Pride And Prejudice for the 200 year anniversary in 2013.

Follow the Yellow Brick Road to Strathfield

Strathfield Musical Society (NSW) will present The Wizard of Oz from May 17 at the Latvian Theatre.

The production is to be directed by Christine Firkin, who explained some of her thoughts on the production.

Bankstown Theatre Company Caught in the Web of the Spider Woman

Bankstown Theatre Company reports that their latest production Kander and Ebb’s Kiss of the Spider Woman, opening on March 15,is creating enormous excitement according to director/choreographer, Edward Rooke.

Melville Theatre Presents Pulitzer Prize Winner Rabbit Hole.

Melville Theatre (WA) presents David Lindsay-Abaire’s 2007 Pulitzer Prize winning drama Rabbit Hole from April 12, 2013.

Rabbit Hole follows Becca and Howie, who had the perfect life with a great marriage, beautiful house and lovely son.

But after a tragic accident, the couple faces the challenges of surviving great loss and making a life with the family that remains.

No Bed of Roses: Black Comedy for Old Mill Theatre

NEVER invite someone into your home without considering the consequences – especially if you’ve confused lust for love.

Set in early 1960s London, the black comedy No Bed of Roses, exploring what happens when a controlling woman invites a stranger into her house and life, plays at the Old Mill Theatre, South Perth, from April 5.

She thinks she loves him and demands her husband accept the situation but, without realising who the stranger really is or what he wants, circumstances spiral out of control.

Sondheim's Company for Subiaco

Stephen Sondheim’s Broadway musical Company, which won six Tony Awards – including best musical – when it was first produced in 1970, will be performed at the Subiaco Arts Centre (WA) in May 2013.

Sondheim (West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods and Gypsy) has said Company was designed to explore upper middle-class people and their problems. 

Stage Comedy from As Time Goes By Writer for Roleystone

Roleystone Theatre (WA) presents A Month of Sundays, a touching comedy from the author of the TV series As Time Goes By, from April 5, 2013.

Written by Bob Larbey and directed by Phil Mackenzie at Roleystone Theatre, A Month of Sundays is set in an aged care home and follows two residents facing the difficulties of growing old and painful family visits with dignity and humour.

Kim Martin plays Cooper, who voluntarily left his family to avoid depending on them, while his friend Aylott is slowly drifting into senility.

Euröbeat: Ready to Vote?

Okay, admit it. You tell everyone that you would never watch the Eurovision song contest in a fit, but secretly you hold a party for your friends and they all come dressed as a different country in national costumes! Every year, millions of people sit around the television set (well, not just one set!) and argue about which overblown song is best/worst. Finally, it’s time we all came out of the Kitsch Kloset and admitted we’re hooked.

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